== Affect theory == * "//a branch of psychoanalysis that attempts to organize affects into discrete categories and connect each one with its typical response//"(([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect_theory|Wikipedia: Affect theory. Retrieved 15. March 2011.]])) == Cognition == * in psychology, the process by which one recognizes and understands things == Cognitive load == * Load imposed on one's cognitive capacities due to performance of cognitive operations == Comprehension == * an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something((Source: [[http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=comprehension]])) == Declarative knowledge == * knowledge is often by instructional designers and philosophers divided into two categories: declarative (knowledge about things, //knowledge that//, for example knowledge about computers) and procedural (skills, //knowledge how//, for example knowledge how to use a computer) == Discrimination learning theory == * a theory of the process by which animals or people learn to respond differently to different stimuli == Distributed representation == * connectionist principle in which meaning is not contained within a single symbolic unit, but is formed by an interaction of a set of units(([[http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/distributedrepresentation.html|Eliasmith C. Distributed representation. Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind. Last updated May 11, 2004.]])) == Doctrine of formal discipline == * the belief that subjects like Latin language and mathematics improve learner's mind in general == Epistemology == * "//is concerned with the nature, sources and limits of knowledge. Epistemology has been primarily concerned with propositional knowledge, that is, knowledge that such-and-such is true, rather than other forms of knowledge, for example, knowledge how to such-and-such.//"(([[http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/P059|Klein, Peter D. Epistemology. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Updated March 31, 2005.]])) == Gestalt == * a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described just as a sum of its parts == Hawthorne effect == * "an increase in worker productivity produced by the psychological stimulus of being singled out and made to feel important"(([[http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/history/hawthorne.html|Hawthorne Effect. Big Dog and Little Dog's Performance Juxtaposition. Last updated September 24, 2010.]])) (for example for the fact that one is being studied) == Human cognitive architecture == * "//the manner in which structures and functions required for human cognitive processing are organized//"(([[http://www.csuchico.edu/~nschwartz/Sweller_2008.pdf|Sweller, J. Human Cognitive Architecture. In Handbook of research on educational communications and technology, 369-381. Taylor & Francis, 2008.]])) == Insightful learning == * learning that results in perceiving the solution to a problem after a period of cognitive trial and error * learner is required to have all elements of the problem available in order to be able to learn by insight == Journal == * a scholarly periodical containing original research articles aimed at researchers or specialists == Magazine == * a periodical aimed at the general public, which contains news, opinion and personal narratives == Paradigm == * a set of ideas that are used for understanding or explaining something, especially in a particular subject * a typical example or model of something == Procedural knowledge == * knowledge on how to do something (see also: [[glossary#declarative_knowledge|declarative knowledge]]) == Schema == * a mental framework humans use to represent and organize remembered information * they enable us to recall, modify our behavior, or try to predict most likely outcomes of events == Script == * "//a coherent sequence of events expected by an individual in a particular context, involving him either as participant or as an observer//"((Puto, C. P. Memory for scripts in advertisements. Advances in Consumer Research XII:404-409. Fifteenth Annual Conference. Association for Consumer Research. 1985.)) == Structuralism == * a theory founded by Edward Titchener in the end of 19th/beginning of 20th century focused on breaking down mental processes into simple elements == Theory == * one or more ideas that explain how or why something happens * the set of general principles that a particular subject is based on == Transfer of practice == * (or //transfer of learning//) a term coined by Thorndike and Woodworth(([[http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Thorndike/Transfer/transfer1.htm|Thorndike, E. L. and Woodworth, R. S. The influence of improvement in one mental function upon the efficiency of other functions. Psychological Review, 8, 247-261. 1901.]])), referring to the generalization of knowledge and transfer of it from one context to another